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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1956
Page
7
Several Mill Street businesses enhanced their storefronts. In Clansmann restaurant workers installed three turquoise nylon booths and a new snack bar with dark green paneling. Acton Home Furnishings and George Holoway’s barber shop also received frontage redecorating and facelift.
Funeral services were held for Mrs Mary Langford at Rum Ley Funeral Home Acton after a sudden death at her Rockwood home. She was a devoted member of United Church and the Woman's Missionary Society. Rev J Dilts and Rev D Blick led the service. Pallbearers named were F Day A MacPhedran E Wilson C Wilson D Moffat V Synott. Interment followed at Fairview Cemetery Acton.
A column reflects on television coverage of US party conventions and how it informs readers about American politics. It also covers a Salada Tea Company prize event for Ontario Women’s Institutes with Wins. It notes Ontario harvests and peculiar weather as well as local observations about crops and wild grapes.
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